Wednesday, 04 May, 2011

Electric Glue: Electrically Controlled Polymer-Surface Adhesion

Polymer-surface interactions provide a basis for nanoscaledesign and for understanding the fundamental chemistry and physics at theselength scales. Controlling these interactions will provide the foundation forfurther manipulation, control, and measurement of single molecule processes. It is this direction of control over nanoscale polymer-surface interactions thatwe explore with electric glue. The adhesion between surfaces and singlemolecules is manipulated based on an externally controlled potential inelectric glue. (online edition of Nano Letters, April 26th, 2011)